I referenced that, but I already deleted the app and the "damage" is done, hearing about the extension after the fact is not enough to make me go back. Honestly there is more going on than I'm willing to describe, but this app and event have managed to deeply upset me on a level that it has no right to. I hope a break will do me good.
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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
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I referenced that, but I already deleted the app and the "damage" is done, hearing about the extension after the fact is not enough to make me go back. Honestly there is more going on than I'm willing to describe, but this app and event have managed to deeply upset me on a level that it has no right to. I hope a break will do me good.
Fright Zone
Member
The new raids/gym system seems to be very divisive.
I'm most definitely not a fan at the moment.
I haven't managed to do a single raid over 2 stars yet.
Since raids began I've only gained 9 rare candies and a single TM
I have been to two Legendary raids so far and not a single other person turned up.
And I live in London! I don't understand why there's never anyone else raiding.
Gym system is very hit and miss for me too, but it feels like I'm gaining less coins overall.
I've only had one 10k egg in the last month too, and it was a fucking Chinchou.
Really losing patience with this game, it's very frustrating not being able to do high level raids 'naturally' (ie. without using Discord or whatever to co-ordinate with strangers, which is not in the slightest bit appealing to me).
I'm most definitely not a fan at the moment.
I haven't managed to do a single raid over 2 stars yet.
Since raids began I've only gained 9 rare candies and a single TM
I have been to two Legendary raids so far and not a single other person turned up.
And I live in London! I don't understand why there's never anyone else raiding.
Gym system is very hit and miss for me too, but it feels like I'm gaining less coins overall.
I've only had one 10k egg in the last month too, and it was a fucking Chinchou.
Really losing patience with this game, it's very frustrating not being able to do high level raids 'naturally' (ie. without using Discord or whatever to co-ordinate with strangers, which is not in the slightest bit appealing to me).
If it makes you feel any better, Chinchou is in 5k eggs now :/
I'm not a big fan of the new gym system either, I don't like depending on luck to get kicked out at the right time.
I do really like the raids though, but my experience seems to be much different than yours. I've done many full raids over the last couple days.
Fright Zone
Member
Did this just happen? Because the 10K I got him in wasn't an old one I got it 5 or 6 days ago I think?
Man, all you people saying you're doing 5 Legendary raids a day with 15-25 people, where the fuck do you live, Johto?
Fright Zone
Member
That did cross my mind. But the first raid I went to was where I live, on the outskirts, where it's much quieter.
Then just now I went to one near my work, in a very densely populated area (where there are a LOT of people in their 20s/30s who I would expect to be playing), and nothing.
I was genuinely surprised.
Edit: Also, I'm annoyed that raid bosses don't even show up as 'seen' in the Pokedex.
bennywhatever
Member
Looked in the OP and couldn't find anything...
I've been away from GO since October but figured now is a fun time to get back into it. Is there a better way to keep your screen on while playing than there used to be? That was honestly the most annoying thing about this game was needing a second app just to be able to play without locking the screen.
Galaxy S5 Active is my phone.
I've been away from GO since October but figured now is a fun time to get back into it. Is there a better way to keep your screen on while playing than there used to be? That was honestly the most annoying thing about this game was needing a second app just to be able to play without locking the screen.
Galaxy S5 Active is my phone.
I noticed the Chinchou change on Sunday, so I think it was relatively recent.
I live in a biggish city in the Midwest, definitely not London size, guess I'm just lucky. There were some raids yesterday where we had up to 60 and we had to break up into groups based on teams.
65k town, several legendary raids a day, and we have had groups of 40 ppl show up a few times, which had to split down to groups of 20. Quite an active base for such a small town really.
If the Raid Boss was still there and your group beat it. All you need to do is to Spin the Pokestop at the Gym. Will take you into the Capture screen / etc
Same thing happened for my 1st Lugia Raid. Frooze at very end. I then attempted to hit the Stop icon on Gym and it gave me rewards and allowed me to try again to catch it. It actually crashed 2 more times, but was allowed to keep going bakc in and eventually I caught it.
i only got items. dam
dreamlongdead
Member
How are you doing this? Lucky egg spam with Pidgeys is still tolerable for you, I suppose.
I'm amazed that you're still so into the game to pull this off. I've been at level 33 for months, and I'm now finally 90K away from level 34. I probably won't be hitting 35 this year.
This pace is fine, since it means that I'll be basically be gaining EXP forever.
I played my ass off during the last three days, so I'm taking a break. Going to play on Wednesday.
The Raids & new Gym system really brought me back and made me very active! I was of course already kinda active every day anyways. But Raids really did it for me.
As far as leveling up so quickly, I am as surprised as you. I've done a lot of Raids, and each of those were an added 3k xp each time (now worth more of course). And did probably 10 T5/T6 raids since Sunday, and that was about 130k in xp right there. For the past couple of months, I've been saving up Pokemon to evolve. Mainly pidgeys of course, but was catching all pokemon and just held onto the amt I needed to evolve. Also, to help get more stardust, I've been trying to hatch as many Pokemon as possible (I add 1 new egg incubator a day). Because of the 1/3rd egg distance, been hatching everything I can.
I'm trying to save up an extra lucky egg session for Thursday before this ends, to help toward the 2 million I need for lv 37. I really doubt I'll leach lv 37 anytime soon. Maybe 2 months if I'm lucky.
jessecuster
Member
ha ha ha, My map showed a Krabby with an Ash hat. When i clicked on it it turned into a Pikachu.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
nope, you don't get one if you have one
spyroflame0487
Member
Nope, you can only have one at a time, however if you use one, you can pick up another that same day. (so for instance, you got a pass on Monday, but didn't use it. You could use it Tuesday on one raid, then spin a Pokestop and get another one and use that one Tuesday. Then you can get another one on Wednesday)
If you're trying to keep the screen on and it's going off when you're walking, you may have Battery Saver enabled, which turns off the screen temporarily when you have your phone upside down.
in your phone's settings there should be a "Display" menu and then somewhere inside that should allow you to change how long it takes your phone to be "on" before it turns the screen off. Most phones have a default to like 30-seconds to a minute or so I think.
I think I seemed to have missed anyone talking about it, but...wasn't there an egg given away at GoFest? I know it ended up being a massive shitshow but I haven't seen anyone talk about the egg or what was in it/given away at the event.
Dark_3nergy
Member
I don't know how you get all those pidgey candy, I always seem to run out. Once Gen 4 drops I can create an army of Honchkrow with all my Murkcrow candy!
Cloggerdude
Member
Today has been a good day.
Randomly ran into a 2,268 CP Dragonite (my first) while hitting all the Pokestops downtown today. Then, I was able to participate in a 20 person raid on Articuno and grabbed one of those too!
Randomly ran into a 2,268 CP Dragonite (my first) while hitting all the Pokestops downtown today. Then, I was able to participate in a 20 person raid on Articuno and grabbed one of those too!
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
the 6th time was a charm last night in terms of getting Articuno.
Did 2 Lugia raids today and got Lugia on the first one.
now where is a damn Unown so I can complete this dex.
Did 2 Lugia raids today and got Lugia on the first one.
now where is a damn Unown so I can complete this dex.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
saw lugia pop up 6 city blocks away had to book it along the way a little girl dropped her soccer ball into the street i stopped a car so i could get it for her then made it to the raid spot with 17 people already there and 15 seconds till raid started cut it super close but got in we downed it in 1 try with over 150 seconds left and i caught lugia in 4 throws my karma paid off for helping someone along the way even a few people after broke off and we did a tyranitar raid ended up catching it as well not great ivs but used the candy to power up the one i already have
its stats arnt great but i got em
and as of the end of today this is my top mons
did a articuno raid after as well only had 6 of us though we could only get it down to about 15-20% really thought golems would do the job but they die in 1 blizzard
after i told my friend i got a lugia he decided he would come out with me tomorrow and well try again
its stats arnt great but i got em
and as of the end of today this is my top mons
did a articuno raid after as well only had 6 of us though we could only get it down to about 15-20% really thought golems would do the job but they die in 1 blizzard
after i told my friend i got a lugia he decided he would come out with me tomorrow and well try again
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Someone didn't get the photobucket memo.
Yesterday was the most fun I'd with Pokemon Go since it's launch. My city has a FB for Pokemon fans and everyone was helping locating the Legendaries and helping each other in raids. I was at a raid with almost 40 people taking down a Lugia. It was quite fun.
I got the Lugia on my first raid, and Articuno at the second
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
hey what the hell thats a paid account lemme fix it
edit: oh wow photobucket wants you to spend $400 to enable 3rd party sharing lol they can go fuck themselves and my post is fixed
Got to level 37 today.
Love the double xp bonus and the stardust one even more. So easy to get like 200k exp in an hour or two with a lucky egg active by just walking, catching and spinning every pokestop. I'm actually running out of pokeballs for the first time since forever.
Also did two Articuno raids, didn't catch them, but no biggy. Got TMs which is what I really wanted. Also met a level 40 player for a first time, a lady with a daughter who came to my city for holidays.
Love the double xp bonus and the stardust one even more. So easy to get like 200k exp in an hour or two with a lucky egg active by just walking, catching and spinning every pokestop. I'm actually running out of pokeballs for the first time since forever.
Also did two Articuno raids, didn't catch them, but no biggy. Got TMs which is what I really wanted. Also met a level 40 player for a first time, a lady with a daughter who came to my city for holidays.
Did nine legendary raids today. Only managed to catch two Lugia and one Articuno. These buggers are so difficult to catch! I'm also never getting the gym control bonus even though the gym is my colour and I only get +1 damage at most. I really need some high level T-Tars lol. Could be worse. One of my buddies who went with me still needs Articuno for his dex.
Oh, and I got the error again where all my Pokemon fainted and the raid boss got defeated before I could rejoin, which resulted in not being able to go to the catch screen. Rightly pissed me of. The Blissey wasn't even fainted because she was still in the red after the raid! So protip: if the raid boss is in the red and you're on your last Pokemon, just let it faint. Don't dodge. You might get the dodge bug. Sometimes you can still get unlucky though and get error'd even if you didn't dodge at all which is really stupid. They should fix that.
Oh, and I got the error again where all my Pokemon fainted and the raid boss got defeated before I could rejoin, which resulted in not being able to go to the catch screen. Rightly pissed me of. The Blissey wasn't even fainted because she was still in the red after the raid! So protip: if the raid boss is in the red and you're on your last Pokemon, just let it faint. Don't dodge. You might get the dodge bug. Sometimes you can still get unlucky though and get error'd even if you didn't dodge at all which is really stupid. They should fix that.
lochnesssnowman
Member
1 raid yesterday, Lugia ran away.
3 raids today, Articuno ran away, Lugia ran away but finally caught an Articuno on attempt #4.
More importantly, randomly checked a local Facebook group here in Edinburgh and an Unown spawned around 2 miles away. Didn't need a second invitation - jumped in the car and it was still there. 2 (tense) escapes from a golden berry ultra combo but caught it in the end.
Just Lugia to go from everything so far - hopefully I'll grab one in the next couple of days.
3 raids today, Articuno ran away, Lugia ran away but finally caught an Articuno on attempt #4.
More importantly, randomly checked a local Facebook group here in Edinburgh and an Unown spawned around 2 miles away. Didn't need a second invitation - jumped in the car and it was still there. 2 (tense) escapes from a golden berry ultra combo but caught it in the end.
Just Lugia to go from everything so far - hopefully I'll grab one in the next couple of days.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
Articuno (Team Mystic) released on Saturday, July 22 and available through Monday, July 31.
Moltres (Team Valor) to be released on Monday, July 31 and available through Monday, August 7.
Zapdos (Team Instinct) to be released on Monday, August 7 and available through Monday, August 14.
https://www.nianticlabs.com/blog/gofestupdate072517/
Moltres (Team Valor) to be released on Monday, July 31 and available through Monday, August 7.
Zapdos (Team Instinct) to be released on Monday, August 7 and available through Monday, August 14.
https://www.nianticlabs.com/blog/gofestupdate072517/
LucidMomentum
Member
IT HAS BEGUN
Dark_3nergy
Member
I finally got a Chancy today from an egg. Super happy!
Super happy!FOR TEAM VALOR!!!!!!!!!!
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
I want to hoard rare candy for Gen III, but I also want to power up my legendaries...
titiklabingapat
Member
I'm still powering up my Articuno. I dont have room for rare candies anymore and it will be good for the pseudo-Legendaries which are mostly dragons.
hydragonwarrior
Member
Cleffa? I wish trading was available - I have like 9 Cleffa lol
hydragonwarrior
Member
But Zapdos is Bestdos :/
I wish zap was first, he would be good against all of them wouldn't he (of the ones they are currently releasing)
I wonder what type of special event Mew or Mewtwo will be.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
uno tres dos ordering got me bothered